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1. www.nytimes.com › 2024/09/08 › artsReview: ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Comes to a Brilliant Conclusion

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   Sep 8, 2024 · “My Brilliant Friend” is quietly ending just as HBO is celebrating the 25th anniversary of “The Sopranos,” which it marked with Alex Gibney’s engaging documentary, “Wise Guy: David ...

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3. www.nytimes.com › 2024/09/09 › artsThe Life-Changing Journey of ‘My Brilliant Friend’ - The New ...

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   Sep 9, 2024 · In the fourth season of “My Brilliant Friend,” premiering Monday on HBO, the childhood friends and fierce rivals Lila and Lenù navigate marriage and divorce, motherhood, loss and middle age.

4. www.bbc.com › culture › article'Criminally underrated': Why My Brilliant Friend is one of ...

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   This summer, the first book in the series, My Brilliant Friend, was voted the best book of the 21st Century in a poll by The New York Times, which described it as an "uncompromising,...

5. www.nytimes.com › 2024/08/23 › booksBook Club: Let’s Talk About ‘My Brilliant Friend’ - The New ...

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   Aug 23, 2024 · The book is the first novel in Ferrante’s so-called Neapolitan quartet, which tracks the lifelong friendship between Lenù and Lila, two women from a rough neighborhood in Naples, Italy, even as...

6. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2018/12/10The Sweet Linearity of “My Brilliant Friend” - The New Yorker

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   Dec 3, 2018 · In one of the loveliest sequences in Elena Ferrante’s novel “My Brilliant Friend,” two girls read “Little Women.” But Elena and Lila don’t merely read the book together.

7. dianerehm.org › shows › 2024/08/29A discussion of “My Brilliant Friend,” the NYT’s book of the ...

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   Aug 29, 2024 · Diane hosted a discussion of “My Brilliant Friend” as part of her Readers Review series back in 2015 on The Diane Rehm Show. She and her guests dug into the characters, the setting, and the mystery surrounding the author’s identity.

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   Is 'My Brilliant Friend' based on a true story?

   • “My Brilliant Friend” (HBO), an eight-hour miniseries adapted from the first of Elena Ferrante ’s Neapolitan novels, opens as the book does, with a telephone ringing in the dead of the night.

   “My Brilliant Friend,” Reviewed: A Prada Ad for ... - The New Yorker

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   Is My Brilliant Friend a good TV series?

   • It has not swept awards shows, and is often missing from round-ups of the best prestige television (it failed to make the cut of BBC Culture's own greatest TV series of the 21st Century poll in 2021). Despite its much-loved source material, the TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend hasn't attracted a comparable amount of attention (Credit: HBO)

   'Criminally underrated': Why My Brilliant Friend is one of the ... - BBC

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   Is 'My Brilliant Friend' the Best Book of the 21st century?

   • This summer, the first book in the series, My Brilliant Friend, was voted the best book of the 21st Century in a poll by The New York Times, which described it as an "uncompromising, unforgettable novel". By comparison, the TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend has flown slightly under the radar.

   'Criminally underrated': Why My Brilliant Friend is one of the ... - BBC

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   How does Ferrante feel about Lila in my Brilliant Friend?

   • This mood has been intensified by Ferrante’s own Banksy-level mystique. In the book “My Brilliant Friend,” Elena, the teacher’s pet, sees the exceptional Lila as not merely her competition but also her role model, her mirror, and, eventually, her subject.

   The Sweet Linearity of “My Brilliant Friend” - The New Yorker

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   What is my Brilliant Friend about?

   • “My Brilliant Friend” is a story about many things—left-wing politics, male violence, fancy shoes, the warping force of patriarchy on female creativity—but it’s centrally about class-jumping, through education, the kind that makes one aware of the origins of social class, including the ways it’s embedded in art.

   The Sweet Linearity of “My Brilliant Friend” - The New Yorker

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   Is 'My Brilliant Friend' the most incisive portrait of a lifelong relationship?

   • This is, simply put, one of the most incisive portraits of a lifelong relationship ever made for TV. “My Brilliant Friend” is quietly ending just as HBO is celebrating the 25th anniversary of “The Sopranos,” which it marked with Alex Gibney’s engaging documentary, “Wise Guy: David Chase and ‘The Sopranos.’”

   Review: ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Comes to a Brilliant Conclusion

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9. www.newyorker.com › culture › on-television“My Brilliant Friend,” Reviewed: A Prada ... - The New Yorker

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   Nov 15, 2018 · Troy Patterson reviews the new eight-hour HBO miniseries “My Brilliant Friend,” an adaptation of the first of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels.